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Related Parties
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Parties

NOTE 16 – RELATED PARTIES

As of December 31, 2019, the Partnership leased approximately 10% of its branch office space from its financial advisors (see Note 2).  The associated lease right-of-use asset and lease liability included in the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition were both $83 at December 31, 2019.  Lease cost related to these leases was $34 for the year ended December 31, 2019.  Rent and other lease-related expenses were $32 and $30 for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.  These leases are executed and maintained in a similar manner as those entered into with third parties.

Olive Street is the investment adviser to the eight sub-advised mutual funds comprising the BB Trust and has primary responsibility for setting overall investment strategies and selecting and managing sub-advisers, subject to the review and approval of the BB Trust's Board of Trustees.  Olive Street has contractually agreed to waive any investment adviser fees above those amounts paid to the sub-advisers.  The investment adviser fee revenue earned by Olive Street, included within asset-based fee revenue on the Consolidated Statements of Income, is offset by the expense paid to the sub-advisers, included within fund sub-adviser fees on the Consolidated Statements of Income.  The total amounts recognized for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 were $147, $123 and $91, respectively.

As the investment adviser to the Money Market Fund, Passport Research has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse Fund operating expenses to the extent necessary to limit the annual operating expenses of the Money Market Fund.  For the three years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, Passport Research earned $58, $48 and $39, respectively, in investment management fees with no waived fees in those periods. Further, Edward Jones earns certain fees from the Money Market Fund, some of which may be voluntarily waived.  For the three years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, total fees earned were $138, $113 and $98, respectively, net of the $30, $30 and $22 of waived fees in the respective periods.  

In the normal course of business, partners and associates of the Partnership and its affiliates use the same advisory, brokerage and trust services of the Partnership as unrelated third parties, with certain discounts on commissions and fees for certain services.  The Partnership has included balances arising from such transactions in the Consolidated Financial Statements on the same basis as other clients.

The Partnership recognizes interest income for the interest earned from partners who elect to finance a portion or all of their Partnership capital contributions through loans made available from the Partnership (see Note 9).